title: Health and Safety Modelling processes at work for the support of the Epidemiological Surveillance.
abstract: Health and safety at the work place is an important issue of the modern society, as there are a lot of factors and parameters which may influence health in the working environment. The aim of this research gives with a simple and comprehensible everything that is related with workers health and it also facilitate the developers computer work to create more advanced systems targeted in health informatics in the near future. Through bibliographic research risk factors were identified and categorized in order to be more functional. These types of categories include the natural, biological, chemical and transverse risk factors. Detailed information was also presented regarding the types of work, the Personal Protective Equipment the sex, the age, the education and the training at the work place. Based on the class diagram of Unified Modeling Language (UML), an object-oriented model was developed, in which every possible correlation of the above mentioned risk factors with the hygiene and safety of workers was presented.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of NursingUniversity of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Dimitris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hatzistavrou
authors.forename: Paraskevi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ponirou
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Charalampidou
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D015995:Prevalence; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods